Anghraine

1. Halo

My best friend and I are watching the first season of Halo, and reached the second to last episode. I was worried in the previous episode that it was going to do some John/Makee thing and sure enough, it did.

On the one hand: not as poorly executed as I expected.

On the other: it speedran the entire relationship, the sex scene (though reasonably discreet) was so polished and glossy that it felt actively wrong for a pairing consisting of a woman abducted by hostile aliens as a child and a deliberately isolated former child soldier—I kept wondering how much these people would even know about human sex, much less that one(1) kiss would lead directly to it in such a camera-perfect way. And yet that's supposed to be enough for Makee to question all her brainwashing etc ... idk, it felt very obligatory het and like something that should have spanned multiple episodes.

I did enjoy Cortana and Kai in it, though, and Halsey is always fun in her horrifying way.

2. People being wrong on the Internet about my fave

I ran over a bad P&P take on f_fa (not surprising), and was idly thinking ... I guess it makes a certain sense that a crowd that leans pretty strongly to The Only War is the Gender War and m/m fandom would be a weird fit for P&P. (I swear, I like f_fa a good 70% of the time, even though I mostly don't say anything about it except when I'm annoyed.) Anyway, I found their takes on Darcy off enough that I was curious what running "Wickham" through dememe would turn up—like, if there'd be any interesting discussions about that particular misunderstanding or whatnot.

I stopped relatively early on, but it mostly turned up Darcy/Wickham shipping, Lydia discourse, and this one extremely f_fa argument that it's actually Darcy's fault that almost everyone misjudged him, believed Wickham's lies, and ignored the numerous red flags in Wickham's story, because if he'd been nicer they wouldn't have been as invested in thinking he was actually evil. Uh, no.

3. Tumblr

Despite offloading my old Tumblr posts here, I'm actively avoiding posting there right now (partly to make cross-posting easier, but partly because I'm genuinely outraged in my way). It's difficult because some people have said some really nice things I'd like to respond to, and I'm just used to putting random headcanons or quote compilations or whatever there and getting quick interaction.

Stepping away is doubly hard because an author I've liked as a public figure for years has—it's become clear through my activity bar that she periodically visits my blog and likes/reblogs stuff, mostly P&P stuff, with cool commentary and everything. I want to respond but ;_;